Parish diary this week

These are the services this week:
Monday June 11th – Mass at 7pm (Feast of St Barnabas) followed by Exposition until 8pm
Tuesday June 12th – Mass at 9.30am
Wednesday June 13th – Mass at 7pm (Feast of St Anthony of Padua)
Thursday June 14th – Liturgy of the Word and Holy Communion at 9.30am
Friday June 15th – Mass at 9.30am
Saturday June 16th – Mass for 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B at 5pm
Sunday June 17th – Mass for 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B at 9.30amParish diary for this weekSunday June 24th – Mass for the Sick with Anointing, Sacred Heart Church, 4pm.Forthcoming events
Saturday June 30th/ Sunday July 1st – Celebrate, Catholic Charismatic Conference, Oscott College, Birmingham.
Sunday July 1st – Parish walk around Draycote Water, called “Share the Journey”. Meet in the Draycote Car Park at 2pm.

Living Eucharist

It is extraordinary what Luke squeezes into the opening verses of Acts – accounts of Ascension and Pentecost; descriptions of model church administration and life, and powerful (and effective) preaching – together with perhaps a joke (omitted from our reading this Sunday). Life in the Church is most certainly not boring. It is alive and […]

The Lectionary compilers were evidently attracted to the use of this psalm for the feast of Pentecost because of how it speaks of the positive work of the (Holy) Spirit and the consequences of the (potential?) withdrawal of the Spirit. The text, particularly when filleted down for the Lectionary, bears that interpretation but the ruah […]

Paul had all sorts of problems with the Church at Corinth! Factionalism manifested itself in all sorts of ways. Factionalism which turned people in on themselves and away from Christ. Spiritual pride afflicted some of those who possessed particular spiritual gifts – and used them to puff themselves up, rather than humbly, quietly, for the […]